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Comment by jacques_chester

7 years ago

This struck me just yesterday. You're left with using nulls (which is a sin punishable by poor data quality) or multiple tables for each sum type. Annoying.

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garmaine  7 years ago

Tables should be lightweight. It's the cruft the language and implementation that makes you avoid them.

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